February 8, 2006

Aperture Trick #31

If you open your RAW files in another converter before bringing them into Aperture, make sure that your converter is set to not embed its settings into the RAW file. Embedding these settings can prevent Aperture from being able to read the RAW file, and the only way to import it to Aperture would be to convert it to a TIFF, PSD, or similar elsewhere and then import the converted file. A sidecar file, such as the one Adobe Camera Raw creates, is safe.

Thanks to Josh Anon for this trick, from the forthcoming book, “Aperture
Exposed.”